Live Challenge

Task:

On June 8th, it is World Oceans Day. ‘The Ocean Project’ has asked your team to develop (code) a 5 minute interactive story/quiz/challenge using Scratch. World Oceans Day encourages us to change perspectives, learn, change our ways, and to celebrate the oceans. Therefore your product must:

Encourage people to think about their plastic usage, and change their ways.
Educate people about oceans and how we’re all connected to them.
Highlight the importance and functions of the world’s oceans.
Celebrate the oceans.

Success criteria:

Evidence of research into overfishing and dangers of plastic disposal
Evidence of planning and designing an original character and animation
Evidence of collaboration (defined roles in your group)
Evidence of basic programming structures including repeat, if and when.
Evidence of using most features of Scratch including events, looks, sounds, control
Your interactive product should run for a minimum of 3 minutes.
The user must be able to return to the main menu

Definitions:

Product: Scratch game which meets the success criteria

Character: An original sprite created by students which can interact with other sprites/objects

Interactive: The object/character can interact with the user/player or another object

Animation: A sequence in a program where the character will move through different stages or environments

Resources:

http://www.worldoceansday.org/splash-bubbles-resources

Piskelapp: 8-bit character creator.

https://www.piskelapp.com/

Sound effects:

https://freesound.org/browse/tags/sound-effects/

Storyboard